[TriLUG] OT: TIME WARNER ANNOUNCES INTRODUCTION OF PACKET SHAPING TECHNOLOGY NATIONWIDE

[Michael Tharp]

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> "Packet shaping" technology has been implemented for newsgroup
> applications, regardless of the provider, and all peer-to-peer networks
> and certain other high bandwidth applications not necessarily limited to
> audio, video, and voice over IP telephony. Road Runner reserves the
> right to implement network management tools for other applications in
> the future.
>   
Good thing I use azureus' bittorrent encryption! Transparent to packet
shapers! I highly recommend it to anyone, even if they don't have to
hide from their ISP.
> Customers are further advised that efforts designed to circumvent our
> network management tools may be in violation of our Acceptable Use
> Policy and may result in account suspension without warning.
>   
Have fun with that.